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Hey Nostradamus!

I`m doing a written assignment on a book for my English class, and I have chosen to write about Douglas Coupland`s Hey Nostradamus!... I have read it myself, and since I know that lots of you have read it too, I just wondered if you could maybe help me get started on it.
What`s important to include and such. Anything would be helpful, really.

The fact that the book is more about the changes it has on people afterwards and not the actual event, I think it should be all jolly. Now if it was an action novel all taking place in a school shooting, that would be different I supose. I can't help you with the essay though, cause... all you said was "written assignment" and that could mean many different things in my mind.

The fact that the book is more about the changes it has on people afterwards and not the actual event, I think it should be all jolly. Now if it was an action novel all taking place in a school shooting, that would be different I supose. I can't help you with the essay though, cause... all you said was "written assignment" and that could mean many different things in my mind.

sorry mate.

that might fly in other countries but this is America! where a Survivor film can't get off the ground because it's considered to close a subject to 9/11

that might fly in other countries but this is America! where a Survivor film can't get off the ground because it's considered to close a subject to 9/11

But the book was made, was it not? If you where banned from writing an essay on a great book showing the struggles and emotions of fictional characters just based on the fact that it SLIGHTLY resembles an act of violence that occurred eight years ago would just be sad. It's still a touchy subject, sure. I remember reading HEY, NOSTRADAMUS ! back in high school. Hell, I even read RAGE by Steven king but never got second looked. They are fiction books. Even in middle school a couple years after the incident, the book SHE SAID YES was almost required reading and it was written just as HEY, NOSTRADAMUS! was, but it was fiction.

The survivor thing is completely different in my view. It was very bad timing, and that was a movie aimed to the public. That was Hollywood. This is an English class.

But the book was made, was it not? If you where banned from writing an essay on a great book showing the struggles and emotions of fictional characters just based on the fact that it SLIGHTLY resembles an act of violence that occurred eight years ago would just be sad. It's still a touchy subject, sure. I remember reading HEY, NOSTRADAMUS ! back in high school. Hell, I even read RAGE by Steven king but never got second looked. They are fiction books. Even in middle school a couple years after the incident, the book SHE SAID YES was almost required reading and it was written just as HEY, NOSTRADAMUS! was, but it was fiction.

The survivor thing is completely different in my view. It was very bad timing, and that was a movie aimed to the public. That was Hollywood. This is an English class.

Well, Survivor wouldn't have gotten published if it hadn't been written before 9/11. Just like FIght Club would not have been made into a movie. Suicide hijackings and blowing up massive skyscrapers doesn't seem far-fetched anymore, so I think the publishers and movie houses are both worried about liabilities and afraid the public has lost its appetite for such things.

I don't recall any teachers trying to discourage me from reading something in particular in high school, but these days it seems like the urge to censor runs high. Not so much the traditional Xtian book banning types, more from intolerant liberals in the Tipper Gore mold.

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